Parth: This is a huge area of discussion! First, I must disagree with your recommendation to see a psychiatrist immediately. Children (and adults) can have attention problems for many reasons. "ADD" is just a description of the symptoms the person is showing, not an indication of the cause. That means before jumping into medication (which is what many psychiatrists tend to do), you want to look more carefully at what is happening: when did the attention problems start?, is there anything else that changed around the same time (e.g., at home, at school, with friends)? How is the person's health? Their sleep? Is the problem quite significant or is more an annoyance for others than a problem for the person themselves? Obviously, all of this can get quite complicated and it can be useful to have someone knowledgeable about what can create attention or impulsivity problems to explore with. This might be a family physician as the first stop, a psychologist, a neurofeedback practitioner ;-), a ADD coach even, or -- as you say -- a psychiatrist, as long as the psychiatrist has more to offer than medication. I believe it's best to look to the environment and temporary causes before jumping to the conclusion that it's something "wrong" inside the person that needs changing -- especially when we are talking about children. Having said all that -- thanks so much for starting a discussion - maybe others will chime in too!